By Selwyn Duke

“Officially” is a funny word. Officially, China’s constitution guarantees freedom of speech and religion. Officially, homosexuality is outlawed under Islam (but loopholes exist). Here’s another example:

Officially, our Consumer Price Index (CPI — what’s informally called “inflation”) rose 7.3 percent this year — or 6.9 percent, depending on whom you believe. This would make it the highest in 39 years. Banking on this, however, would be a bit like assuming you could mount a soapbox in Shanghai, call Xi Jinping a traitor and not end up “re-educated.”

For in fact, says one analyst, the real 2021 CPI is 15 percent — the highest in American history.

Indications are that it’s going to get worse, too.

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By Selwyn Duke

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere,” noted GK Chesterton in 1928. As to this, critics of a new statue erected outside UN Headquarters in New York City say it crosses the line. In fact, they claim the work crosses up the Cross, in that it depicts a demonic End Times beast.

“When I first heard about this, I could hardly believe that the global elite would be so brazen,” remarked blogger Michael Snyder, who says the statue “appears to very closely resemble a ‘beast’ that is described in the Book of Revelation.”

The work, which is named the “Guardian for International Peace and Security” (GIPS) and is a gift from the Government of Oaxaca, Mexico (and, apparently, entered our country legally), “is a fusion of jaguar and eagle,” according to this website. It also “has been painted in LGBT colors"….

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By Selwyn Duke

The authorities are Johnny on the spot when someone puts bacon on a mosque’s door handles or a paranoid race-car driver claims a garage-door pull rope is a noose. But a spate of Christmas tree burnings isn’t attracting much attention and generally gets sloughed off as mischief. In fact, after a Christmas display was vandalized at a Chicago park recently for the third year running, a media outlet sloughed the act off as the work of a “Grinch.”

So while leftists have often been called “tree-huggers,” it appears that reflecting their usual standard, some trees are more equal than others. Reporting on this Wednesday evening, Fox News host Tucker Carlson cited the case of a non-profit Chicago group called My Block, My Hood, My City, which aims to encourage virtue and responsibility in youth. Last Saturday afternoon, four members from this group went to the Windy City’s dangerous Bronzeville neighborhood to hang Christmas lights and were robbed by four hooligans; mere hours later, someone torched a Christmas tree they’d erected in a nearby park.

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By Selwyn Duke

Where is the brave little boy to say, “But the Emperor has no clothes!”? This famous Hans Christian Andersen line could come to mind when pondering the case of University of Pennsylvania athlete “Lia” Thomas, the man claiming to be female who has been smashing women’s swimming records. After all, it has just been learned that his teammates’ publicized “support” for him is a façade erected because the female swimmers fear criticism and being “canceled.”

In fact, says one teammate speaking under the condition of anonymity about Thomas’s competing against women, “everyone just knows it's the wrong thing.”

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By Selwyn Duke

“Do you know we don’t rule out first-use nuclear action?” So said Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) while outlining what measures the U.S. could take against Russia over Ukraine, at whose border Moscow has been massing troops. The senator’s office later clarified that this comment related to American policy in general and not specifically to Russia. While this is actually believable (Wicker made a loose comment), what’s unbelievable is that we’re even considering a military confrontation with Moscow over something that does not at all involve a U.S. national interest.

Moreover, what else Wicker said, during a recent interview with Fox News host Neil Cavuto, is not reassuring. To wit: “Well, military action could mean that we stand off with our ships in the Black Sea and we rain destruction … on Russia military capability,” the Independent related him as stating. “It could mean that we participate, and I would not rule that out, I would not rule out American troops on the ground.”

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s a sign of the times that everything has become “political” — even drugs. But all that had to happen to poor hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was for President Trump to tout him, and he automatically became a MAGA-hatted Republican targeted for cancellation. The same is true of ivermectin (IVM), which was branded “horse medicine” even though it has long been used to treat people and our CDC fairly recently recommended it for Afghan “refugees” as an anti-parasitic.

Speaking of woke mentalities, however, applying politically correct thinking to the anti-ivermectin set would get them deemed racists who are calling black Africans horses — animals, in other words — as this drug and HCQ are used widely by people in sub-Saharan countries. Notably, these nations also happen to have low rates of COVID-19-induced death, a phenomenon that should interest anyone concerned about tackling the disease.

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By Selwyn Duke

While our southern-border invasion continues not just unabated but with the act-of-omission aid and abetment of the Biden administration, foreign borders are often considered sacrosanct. One example is Ukraine’s border with Russia — in fact, establishment Democrats and Republicans claim they may be willing to go to war with Moscow over it.

What’s more, one senator actually mentioned our first-strike nuclear capability when discussing the matter.

Welcome to Dr. Strangelove foreign policy.

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By Selwyn Duke

In case you haven’t guessed, my title is another way of characterizing the hoax perpetrated by actor and malefactor Jussie Smollett, currently on trial for falsely claiming he was the victim of a 2019 “hate crime.” It’s a way of framing the frame that would be quite common were the races reversed.

Of course, a white guy today doesn’t have to falsely claim anything to be demonized in media. He just has to be guilty of DWW — Defending While White, à la poor Kyle Rittenhouse or Mark McCloskey. As for Smollett, he pulls a jump-the-shark version of a “hate crime” hoax, and the media (see Robin Roberts et al.) just nod sympathetically.

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By Selwyn Duke

“If something can’t go on, it won’t,” goes the paraphrase of economist Herb Stein. This reality could explain a shocking and, some would say, unbelievable story:

CNN, the poster boy for left-wing activism posing as journalism, may be poised to become more conservative.

This is according to lawyer extraordinaire, ex-U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and well-connected savant Joe DiGenova. In a recent interview on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., DiGenova provided his explanation for what many pundits are theorizing about: the real reason CNN fired its highest-rated performer, Chris Cuomo.

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By Selwyn Duke

Socialist Saul “the Red” Alinsky’s work Rules for Radicals is widely embraced by Machiavellian leftist social engineers. But some on the Right are now also taking a leaf from the book — in particular, the counsel that mockery is one of man’s most potent weapons.

Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift used this strategy almost 300 years ago (his Gulliver’s Travels critique of lawyers is hilarious). Late radio host Rush Limbaugh, also quite swift, did likewise and called it “illustrating absurdity by being absurd.” And satirical site The Babylon Bee uses the technique to great effect, and most recently, a day after ex-presidential nominee Bob Dole’s passing, ran the headline “Bob Dole Switches To Democrat Party.”  

Yet proving that this could be applied to the COVID-1984 situation, and maybe should….

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